The infamous Australian bushranger Ned Kelly has been granted his final wish,
131 years after he was hanged, after the Victorian state government agreed
to hand back his remains to his family for burial.

Kelly’s dying wish was to be buried with his mother and siblings in
consecrated ground in Victoria.

The notorious thief and murderer was executed at the Old Melbourne Gaol in
November 1880, five months after he was arrested in a shootout between his
gang of outlaws and police at Glenrowan, a rural town northeast of
Melbourne.